Redevelopment of "Khrushchev": beautiful design options

The so-called "Khrushchevs" are apartments in houses built in the 60s of the last century. They were built on the principle of "fast and a lot". They have everything you need to exist, but they are small and not always comfortable for life. Therefore, many dare to redevelop them.

An ordinary Khrushchev is small rooms, often adjoining, combined toilet and bathroom, a small 6-meter kitchen, low ceilings. Often in such apartments there are inconvenient corridors, storage rooms, dark rooms, mezzanines, where all rubbish is stored. The location of the premises in Khrushchev is also inconvenient. It is impossible to conveniently arrange furniture in the walk-through rooms, since it is necessary to leave space for passage to another room. There is unused space in the hallway and corridor, where no furniture can fit.

It is not surprising that the owners of such apartments are thinking about changes that could help them increase the area of ​​the apartment without buying additional meters. In this case, redevelopment may be a good idea.

When deciding on the redevelopment of the Khrushchev, it is important to know some of the nuances.

43 squares will never turn into 70 or even 50. Nevertheless, a competent redistribution of areas helps to feel comfortable even in a small area.

One of the popular solutions is to combine several rooms into one. A 2-room apartment can turn into a studio or a studio. The room expands due to the disappearance of interior partitions. This allows you to place the necessary furniture, as well as get rid of the pressure exerted on a person by a small room. The living area can also be expanded through a corridor, hallway, pantry or kitchen.

In a combined room, it is convenient to use zoning to distinguish between places of work, rest, cooking and eating, as well as separate spaces for everyone living in this apartment.

Another way to change a small apartment is to visually enlarge it by using certain colors, partitions, materials.

When redeveloping, you need to take into account several points.

• Not every wall can be demolished... The load-bearing walls, which are 22-32 cm thick, constitute the frame of the house and must not be touched. But interior partitions 7-9 cm thick can be removed, moved or made a door in them in a convenient place. Unfortunately, in a brick house, almost all walls are load-bearing, in a panel house, the interior partitions are made of gypsum cement or gypsum boards, and they can be demolished.

• The kitchen cannot be made part of the living room, if a gas stove, water heater or boiler is installed in it. It will not work to put a bar counter between the kitchen and the room, but you can make a light partition. Or you can install an electric stove in the kitchen, it is safer and does not cause objections from the BTI. As for the water heater, if possible, move it to the bathroom.

• Part of the living space must not be connected to the kitchen... However, the kitchen can be expanded by using part of the corridor or hallway for this.
• Make the bathroom part of the room or increasing it at the expense of the room will also not work.

• It is not allowed to block access to central communications, move or dismantle ventilation shafts.
• It is impossible to completely or partially destroy intermediate floors, if adjacent apartments are located one above the other.
• Also, the load-bearing wall cannot be completely demolished. between the balcony and the main room.

If these requirements are taken into account, you can proceed to the procedure for registering a redevelopment project. Such documents are necessary, because any legal action with the apartment is impossible without an up-to-date apartment plan. If the fact of illegal alteration of the apartment is discovered, its owner will have to pay a fine and amend the plan, or return the apartment to its original form.

So, permission for redevelopment is issued at the BTI - the bureau of technical inventory. To obtain permission, you need to prepare the following documents:

• title deed;
• redevelopment project, which indicates the changes;
• technical conclusion on the safety of repair work, which is ordered from a specialized organization;
• BTI floor plan, technical passport;
• consent of all residents or homeowners (written in free form);
• an application with the details of the redevelopment (to be filled in at the housing inspectorate).

You will also have to pay a fee for paperwork.

Redevelopment documents are drawn up within a month and a half. After that, the certified document is issued to the applicant within three days, and the repair can begin.

There are several options for redeveloping the Khrushchev, they differ depending on the number of rooms and layout.

A one-room apartment is most often converted into a studio apartment. To do this, the only room is combined with the kitchen, resulting in a larger room. Also, the room can be enlarged due to the hallway or corridor.

Another idea is to insulate a balcony or loggia and use them as an office, resting place, or make them part of a kitchen or room. A beautiful arch that separates the loggia from the rest of the room and at the same time connects them will look easy and original.

On the plan, we see that after the alteration, the 1-room apartment turned into a studio apartment. The wall between the kitchen and the room was removed, and the usable living space was expanded by attaching a balcony to the room. A separate sleeping place has appeared. Cabinets are installed in niches, which helps to preserve the volume of the room and the most rational use of the area of ​​the apartment.

If the creation of a studio is undesirable, you can enlarge the room, kitchen or bathroom by moving the partitions accordingly. Moving the walls, we get a bathroom, which has room for modern household appliances, or a larger kitchen.

You can get extra space in the room by getting rid of the pantry or closet. Such a nook can be used as a sleeping or working place.

Khrushchev's kopeck piece is more spacious than a one-room apartment, but most often it has an inconvenient layout. The kitchen and bathroom are small, the corridor and hallway take up a lot of space, the rooms are inconveniently located.

In this case, changing the location of the interior walls helps.

• On the one hand, additional partitions can be added. Adjacent rooms, which have a "tram" appearance in the plan and overlook the different sides of the house, can be divided by a corridor. In such a corridor, you can put a wardrobe, and the rooms will free up space that was previously used for cabinets and walls. If you wish, you can even get a three-room apartment by building a plasterboard structure.
• On the other hand, the wall between the rooms can be removed to create one spacious room.Various zones in it can be distinguished using furniture arrangement, shelving, portable partitions or by delimiting the zones with color.

In many Khrushchev buildings, the doors to the rooms and the kitchen are inconveniently located. The place in front of them, like the passage to them, must not be blocked. There are "dead zones" - free space that cannot be used. This problem can be easily solved by moving the doors to a more convenient location. Sometimes it is possible to make a separate one from the walk-through room by moving the door to another room.

Sliding doors or accordion doors also save space. An interesting design solution is the bevel of the walls, their arrangement at an angle, which allows you to use every centimeter of the area.

Here is an example of reconstruction in a tram-type apartment. Here, two adjoining rooms are separated by a corridor. Thus, one of the rooms has ceased to be a walk-through. In addition, a storage space was created. A partition appeared in the long room, separating the bedroom from the living room. Now this apartment has become a three-room one.

The three-room Khrushchev also faces the problem of the most rational use of the area. Here you can enlarge the rooms by attaching a corridor or part of the hallway to them.

The layout of this apartment has undergone major changes. The elongated room in the center of the apartment has been transformed into a cozy compact bedroom. The vacant space was used to enlarge the living room, which for convenience is divided into two zones. The bathroom took up part of the corridor, and the hallway moved to where the utility rooms used to be.

An interesting design move has been used in this apartment. The living room is connected to the hallway by a sloping corridor. Part of the area of ​​the former hall went to a bathroom and a children's room, which took the place of utility rooms. The apartment has been rebuilt for the needs of those living in it.

There is another way to make an apartment bigger - to expand its boundaries visually. For this, various tricks and tricks are used.

One of them is the choice of furniture for the apartment. For a small apartment, smaller furniture is suitable. Folding sofa beds, sliding tables, folding chairs save space well. On the layout diagram, such pieces of furniture take up less space.

For a small apartment, it is important to choose multifunctional furniture that can be used in different ways. A sofa with a lifting mechanism, benches and ottomans with a hinged lid can be used as additional storage space.

A folding wardrobe bed or a loft bed, under which there is a place for work, also helps to save space. An interesting option is the transforming bed, which folds up in the daytime and takes up much less space.

You can visually expand the room using transparent and mirror surfaces. Transparent furniture is invisible, but fulfills its function. A transparent partition lets in color, does not clutter up the room, but at the same time separates one "room" from another.

Mirrors on walls or cabinets reflect the room, adding depth and visually enlarging it. Visually "raise" the low ceiling will help the ceiling, reflecting the space under it.

Another way to make the room appear larger is to use certain colors in the interior. The room becomes more spacious at a glance if it has light wallpaper. Horizontal stripes on the wallpaper will help to visually expand the room.

In a small room, lighting is very important. A room seems larger if there are no dark corners in it. And here for illumination it is necessary use lighting fixtures that do not take up much space - table and wall lamps, led lighting, built-in point light sources.

In a small low room, shelves, high racks and cabinets will help to visually raise the ceiling.In addition, they maximize the use of wall space.

The walk-through room can be easily made visually more spacious if the doors are removed in it.... Often these doors won't close anyway. But a beautiful large arch will expand the space.

In this room, light furniture and horizontal surfaces on the wall visually expand the space. Photo wallpaper on the wall depicting a field receding into the distance also adds volume to the room.

This is an ordinary room in a small apartment, but it seems more spacious than it actually is. All the techniques mentioned above are used here: light walls and furniture, long shelves and a curbstone, a transparent table. The room is filled with air and light.

When considering redevelopment, it is important to include in the project a personal space for each family member. It can be separated by a light partition, a screen or visually highlighted in color.

The kitchen usually has a work and dining area. The border between them can be a bar counter, a sofa or an arch. The working area can be moved to the wall with a window, where the hostess will be light and comfortable to cook. An interesting option is to transfer the working area to a balcony or loggia. In this case, you need to transfer communications there.... There you can also set aside an area for storing food and kitchen utensils. The redesigned kitchen frees up space for a dining area, where you can put a table, a corner sofa, hang a TV on the wall - and this area will also turn into a recreation area.

In Khrushchev, the living room area is often increased due to the bedroom, leaving only space in it for the bed and bedside table. This is useful if the owner of the bedroom spends a lot of time in the living room. You just need to leave a place in front of the bed so that the person can stand up.

You can separate the bedroom from the rest of the room with heavy curtains or a niche. If you put the bed on a podium, decorate it with lighting, this design will look stylish and modern. On the podium, you can allocate a place for storing things, this will help get rid of unnecessary cabinets in the apartment.

Particular attention should be paid to the living area, because this is the place where a person spends his free time, meets with friends, communicates with his family. It is important that the living room is not cluttered with things and meets the interests of the owners. It is convenient when the living room is in the center of the apartment and has access to the rest of the premises.

When arranging furniture in the living room, pay attention to the location of the TV. If it is directly in front of a window, glare will interfere with your TV viewing.

Let's take a look at the best options for decorating converted apartments.

This apartment is decorated in a modern style. The interior looks stylish thanks to the same colors in the design of the kitchen and recreation area. This area is separated from the kitchen by a partition and highlighted with a different floor color. Of particular interest are the semicircular partitions that continue the circle on the floor. Thanks to this solution, the recreation area invites you to retire, while having a connection with the single space of the apartment.

Here, the border between the kitchen and the living room is marked with a light curved partition, spotlights on the ceiling and a special floor pattern in the kitchen. The colors chosen for the partition and furniture are warm and calm.

And here is an unusual example of an economical arrangement of furniture. The bedroom takes up very little space, in fact it is just a bed on the podium, to which the stairs lead. The space under the sofa is used as much as possible - things are stored there. The partition between the rooms is a rack. All furniture is multifunctional and compactly located.

Here's another option for those who don't want to make a separate kitchen. In this apartment, on the border of the kitchen and living room, there is a light transparent table, which, as it were, unites the ideas of food and relaxation.The kitchen is made in light bright colors. The horizontal stripes on the living room panels echo the colors of the kitchen verticals.

The mirror, located on the wall above the table, visually expands the kitchen and complements the windows. In general, the apartment looks modern and does not look like a Khrushchev building.

In this photo, you need to pay attention to the successful design of the partitions between the rooms. A shelving unit and an iridescent lamp separates the corridor and the living room. A sliding matte partition divides the private space of the bedroom. Such a partition does not take up much space, but it looks very impressive.

For information on how to properly redevelop the "Khrushchev", see the next video.